[Dovecot] Initial status notification not received

[Timo Sirainen]

On 16.11.2012, at 16.12, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:

> We have SLES-11 SP2 Xen VMs running dovecot as IMAP proxies. At VMs 
> startup, dovecot almost always shows these errors:
> 
> Nov 16 14:29:19 server dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.10 starting up (core dumps disabled)
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 3591 killed with signal 9
> 
> As the last line tells, dovecot stops logging information. We have to 
> restart the dovecot processes to get back normal behaviour. I also tried 
> to set idle_kill values to services definitions, without success.

You mean this happens when the VM starts up, but if you manually restart it later they don't happen?

> Is there a way to prevent these errors?

I wonder if it's because of SLES or something else.